Alliance for Rural Electrification

À la suite du lancement réussi des manuels d’orientation et des outils de soutien pour la conformité ESG dans le secteur des mini réseaux africains lors du Energy Access Investment Forum, la BAD SE...

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Following the successful launch of the Guidance Materials and Support Tools for ESG Compliance for the African Mini-Grid Sector at the Energy Access Investment Forum, AfDB SEFA, IFC, and ARE are ro...

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MyJouleBox secured a deal with Energise Africa at the ARE Energy Access Investment Forum 2026, unlocking a EUR 3 million subsidy from the Beyond the Grid Fund.

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The ARE Energy Access Investment Forum (EAIF) 2026 successfully concluded in Nairobi, Kenya, bringing together more than 800 on-site participants from 21 to 24 April 2026. The Forum reaffirmed its ...

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Session objectives To examine how energy sector planning, regulatory frameworks, and financing mechanisms, particularly Results-Based Financing (RBF), can evolve to position mini-grids as essentia...

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Session Objective To examine how financing structures must evolve to mobilise capital at scale for mini-grid deployment, grounded in real developer experience and aligned with investor risk requi...

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Session Objective To examine the operational and institutional constraints that prevent mini-grid developers from converting prepared pipelines into scalable, bankable portfolios, and to explore ...

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Interviews at EAIF 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya, on 21-24 April 2026. Featuring: -Tamara Kalunda, Principal, Open Capital -Mateo Salomon, Head of Climate Change Mitigation, UNDP -Meghana Duggirala, Exe...

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Africa’s expanding agroprocessing sector is driving significant and highly specific energy demand requirements for cold storage, milling, drying, refrigeration and industrial-scale processing facil...

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Africa’s growing digital economy is driving new energy needs for data centres and telecom networks. This session examines investment opportunities and partnership models that align digital expansio...

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Renewable electrification in the raw materials sector represents a strategic opportunity to reduce operating costs, enhance energy security, and strengthen ESG performance. As energy-intensive indu...

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Learn more about the ARE Energy Access Investment Forum: www.eaif.energy Learn more about ComAp: https://www.comap-control.com/ Learn more about the Alliance for Renewable Electrification: www.re...

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This session explores how renewable energy can drive industrialisation across Eastern and Southern Africa by powering sectors with rapidly growing electricity demand. Panellists will assess the cur...

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To ground the workshop in the current realities of mini-grid markets in Africa, frame the key structural constraints limiting scale, and align stakeholders around the three interdependent pathways ...

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As Africa’s mobility sector evolves, distributed renewable energy (DRE) is emerging as a solution to power electric transportation. From hybrid solar-storage swap stations to co-located mini-grids ...

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In this roundtable, panellists will discuss how scaling renewable electrification and distributed renewables sustainably depends on stronger domestic manufacturing capacity and a workforce equipped...

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Strong public-private partnerships are a key to enabling renewable electrification and modernise African power systems. This session explores how utilities can collaborate with private sector techn...

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Mission 300 (M300) represents a collective commitment to accelerate progress toward universal energy access by mobilising public and private investments around clear, time-bound targets. This re...

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More than USD 2 billion was mobilised in financial pledges from governments and the private sector at the first Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa in Paris in 2024. Building on this momentum, the se...

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